Security Boulevard

Payouts King Takes Aim at the Ransomware Throne

IntroductionIn February 2022, BlackBasta emerged as a successor to Conti ransomware and quickly rose to prominence. BlackBasta was operational for three years until February 2025 when their internal ...
eWeek

One-Click Prompts Land in Chrome's Gemini

Google is rolling out Skills to the Gemini sidebar in Chrome, letting you save any prompt—as simple as "summarize this tab" ...

In the Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos, OpenAI Has a New Cybersecurity Model—and Strategy

OpenAI says its safeguards “sufficiently reduce cyber risk” for now, while GPT-5.4-Cyber is a new cybersecurity-focused model ...

France is replacing 2.5 million Windows desktops with Linux - and I mapped out its new stack

Officially, we don't know what France's forthcoming Linux desktop will look like, but this is what my sources and experience ...
IEEE

Designing of AES-128 Encryption Algorithm Using System Verilog VLSI

Abstract: This paper details a comprehensive study on the implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) using Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) technology for the purpose of creating ...